HP Contract Job Trends in London

HP
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of HP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HP over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Hewlett-Packard Company.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 308 310
Rank change year-on-year -89 +2 +39
Contract jobs citing HP 43 72 72
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.21% 0.53% 0.44%
As % of the Vendors category 0.51% 1.15% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 42 55
10th Percentile £154 £174 £141
25th Percentile £188 £401 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year - +42.86% -22.22%
75th Percentile £587 £608 £491
90th Percentile £650 £698 £558
England median daily rate £370 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -17.78% -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 6
10th Percentile £18.07 - -
25th Percentile £18.96 - £18.13
Median hourly rate £19.85 £25.15 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year -21.07% +19.96% -1.18%
75th Percentile £25.77 - £23.80
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £20.09 £24.87 £18.13
% change year-on-year -19.21% +37.16% -22.85%

All Vendors
London

HP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,398 6,245 6,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.98% 45.85% 42.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,477 4,075 4,770
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £654 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £511 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 121 86
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £17.60
25th Percentile £20.60 £22.50 £20.69
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -21.43%
75th Percentile £58.57 £43.75 £60.94
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.63
England median hourly rate £35.53 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +41.27% -13.28% -26.77%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

HP job vacancy trend in London

HP
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP

HP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in London over the 6 months to 4 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HP in London

HP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP

HP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the London region over the 6 months to 4 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -19 7 £563 +12.55% 3
West London -16 5 £145 - 2
HP
England

HP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (18.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (9.30%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.65%) SAS
4 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 16 (37.21%) Azure
2 8 (18.60%) AWS
3 6 (13.95%) Entra ID
3 6 (13.95%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (11.63%) GCP
5 4 (9.30%) OneDrive
6 3 (6.98%) IaaS
6 3 (6.98%) OpenShift
6 3 (6.98%) PaaS
7 1 (2.33%) Cloudflare
7 1 (2.33%) GitHub
7 1 (2.33%) OCI
7 1 (2.33%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 11 (25.58%) Firewall
2 9 (20.93%) DNS
3 8 (18.60%) DHCP
4 5 (11.63%) VPN
5 4 (9.30%) LAN
5 4 (9.30%) Network Security
5 4 (9.30%) SMTP
5 4 (9.30%) TCP/IP
5 4 (9.30%) WAN
5 4 (9.30%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.33%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (2.33%) IPsec
6 1 (2.33%) iSCSI
6 1 (2.33%) SSL
6 1 (2.33%) VLAN
6 1 (2.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (9.30%) Big Data
1 4 (9.30%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.98%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.33%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.33%) Base SAS
4 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.33%) PowerCenter
4 1 (2.33%) SAS Data Integration Studio
4 1 (2.33%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 1 (2.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (23.26%) JIRA
2 5 (11.63%) Selenium
3 3 (6.98%) Zephyr
4 2 (4.65%) LoadRunner
4 2 (4.65%) Postman
4 2 (4.65%) TestDirector
5 1 (2.33%) Appium
5 1 (2.33%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.33%) HP UFT
5 1 (2.33%) JMeter
5 1 (2.33%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Banking
3 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.63%) Finance
4 4 (9.30%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.65%) Private Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.33%) Legal
6 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (18.60%) Hardware Technician
2 7 (16.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (16.28%) Support Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Field Service Technician
3 6 (13.95%) Tester
4 5 (11.63%) Data Centre Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Network Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Senior
5 4 (9.30%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Senior Network Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Server Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 3 (6.98%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (6.98%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Break Fix Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Hardware Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Support
6 3 (6.98%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) Middleware
2 3 (6.98%) REST
3 1 (2.33%) JSON
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.33%) Playwright
3 1 (2.33%) SOAP
3 1 (2.33%) XML
3 1 (2.33%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.58%) Data Centre
2 5 (11.63%) Management Information System
3 4 (9.30%) Clustering
3 4 (9.30%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (9.30%) PKI
4 3 (6.98%) iPhone
5 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.33%) Celerra
6 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.33%) EMC VMAX
6 1 (2.33%) EMC VNX
6 1 (2.33%) Fat Client
6 1 (2.33%) IBM XIV
6 1 (2.33%) iPad
6 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.33%) Smartphone
6 1 (2.33%) Symmetrix
6 1 (2.33%) Symmetrix DMX
6 1 (2.33%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (27.91%) Windows
2 8 (18.60%) Windows Server
3 6 (13.95%) Linux
4 2 (4.65%) Unix
5 1 (2.33%) AIX
5 1 (2.33%) HPUX
5 1 (2.33%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.33%) Solaris
5 1 (2.33%) SUSE
5 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.91%) Migration
2 11 (25.58%) Test Automation
3 10 (23.26%) Customer Service
3 10 (23.26%) DevOps
4 8 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (18.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (16.28%) ITIL
5 7 (16.28%) Regression Testing
5 7 (16.28%) System Integration Testing
5 7 (16.28%) Test Management
5 7 (16.28%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (13.95%) AI
6 6 (13.95%) Break/Fix
6 6 (13.95%) Change Management
6 6 (13.95%) Defect Management
6 6 (13.95%) End-to-End Testing
6 6 (13.95%) Scenario Testing
6 6 (13.95%) Test Strategy
7 5 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (11.63%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.63%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.98%) SQL
3 1 (2.33%) Java
3 1 (2.33%) SAS Macro
3 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (23.26%) Degree
2 6 (13.95%) Security Cleared
3 4 (9.30%) DV Cleared
3 4 (9.30%) ISTQB
4 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.33%) CCNP
5 1 (2.33%) CCSE
5 1 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.33%) CISSP
5 1 (2.33%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (25.58%) SLA
2 5 (11.63%) Data Quality
2 5 (11.63%) QA
3 1 (2.33%) GDPR
3 1 (2.33%) GRC
System Software
1 9 (20.93%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.30%) BitLocker
2 4 (9.30%) Hyper-V
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft App-V
2 4 (9.30%) Terminal Services
2 4 (9.30%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (9.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.98%) Docker
4 1 (2.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 1 (2.33%) Firmware
4 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (23.26%) HP ALM
2 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (9.30%) Ansible
3 4 (9.30%) vCenter Server
3 4 (9.30%) vMotion
4 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.98%) Nagios
4 3 (6.98%) Puppet
5 1 (2.33%) Avamar
5 1 (2.33%) Control-M
5 1 (2.33%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (2.33%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (2.33%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.33%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 12 (27.91%) Microsoft
2 8 (18.60%) Cisco
2 8 (18.60%) VMware
3 7 (16.28%) Dell
3 7 (16.28%) IBM
3 7 (16.28%) Oracle
4 5 (11.63%) Zscaler
5 4 (9.30%) Citrix
5 4 (9.30%) Google
5 4 (9.30%) Symantec
6 2 (4.65%) 3PAR
6 2 (4.65%) Avaloq
6 2 (4.65%) NetApp
6 2 (4.65%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.33%) Canon
7 1 (2.33%) Isilon
7 1 (2.33%) Meraki
7 1 (2.33%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.33%) Trend Micro
7 1 (2.33%) Veeam